On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 4:32 PM Manni Wood <manni.wood@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

I have a thought and a question:

My notes say "If I use `--buildtype=release` it optimizes `-O2` and the executable contains no debug symbols."

That would be `debugoptimized` not `release`, from [1] i see that `release` is -O3 with no debug.

So, seeing as end users will presumably be seeing the performance generated by `--buildtype=release`, should we be building with that for all performance testing?

I know that Debian builds with 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-omit-frame-pointer' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now' ; this is from pg_config for v18.

[1] https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html

Regards,

Ayoub